A direct blow to the Democratic Party

[savalez]

"A direct blow to the President of the United States. A direct blow to his Democratic party."

CNN said that on the air when they thought the ACA was found unconstitutional. This was how they were planning to play the decision.

I haven't had time to watch TV lately. Have they since reversed themselves and declared it a boon? Or did they move on to repuke talking points?

[murielm99]

1. I believe they spoke about how the decision was UNDERSTANDABLY

confusing to reporters.

Aren't reporters literate people any more? Aren't they required to finish high school, at the very least?

Oh well, at least we have a better idea of how stupid they really are.

[zbdent]

7. "Aren't reporters literate people any more?" ... hey, don't insult their intelligence ...

it's hard enough for them to read the directives from the GOP masters ...

[hfojvt]

2. good question

because they now probably are covered with pundits saying "now people will be fired up to over-turn it through the ballot box".

[Hawaii Hiker]

3. Yeah, and what it ended up being was a

DIRECT BLOW to what was left off CNN's credibility,

[pinboy3niner]

4. Mediaite: CNN Launches Internal Review After SCOTUS Ruling Mistake

by Alex Alvarez | 4:13 pm, June 29th, 2012

CNN has vowed to launch an internal review prompted by its initial misreporting of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law’s individual mandate, TPM reports today.

In a memo obtained by the Washington Post, CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist writes that “we are looking into exactly what happened” before noting “our coverage after 10:20am was very strong:”

Today we failed to adhere to our own standard, namely it’s better to be right than to be first. We take mistakes seriously, especially mistakes on such important stories. We are looking into exactly what happened and we will learn from it.

...


(Feist’s full memo at link.)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-launches-internal-review-after-scotus-ruling-mistake/

[RandySF]

5. It's still "good news for Romney."

Because he can supposedly fire up the Republican base with it.

[SoutherDem]

6. I am glad CNN and FOX screwed the pooch.

We got to see what would have happened. We knew FOX was going to play it that way, now CNN can't deny their conservative bias.

[auburngrad82]

8. I'm not. I'm a dog lover.

I would rather they had gotten a blowjob from an alligator.

[mulsh]

9. I believe CNN & Fox had the story written well before the deciscion was announced.

I believe their coverage is further proof of how useless and crappy both organizations are as news sources.

I also sort of wonder how many other stories these two pathetic companies "report" are written well before the facts are reviewed.
oh wait, no I don't.